Desecration Or Sanctification: La Juive, The Opera By Jacques Fromental Halevy

Posted on: January 9th, 2004

The curtain rises to reveal a towering wall of translucent glass behind which the chorus sings 'Te deum laudamus, You are G-d, we praise You,' to the provocative chords of the church organ.

One Artist, Many Visions: Leonard Kogan At The Chassidic Art Institute

Posted on: January 2nd, 2004

Transmission is everything. The life's blood of a people is dependent upon many kinds of transmission; oral, scribal, Talmudic and anecdotal.

Different Modernist Trajectories: Schoenberg, Kandinsky, And The Blue Rider At The Jewish Museum

Posted on: December 26th, 2003

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) were two of the most important modernist artists in the early twentieth century.

From Amputation To Wholeness: A Call To Art From The Torah World

Posted on: December 19th, 2003

"We have inherited an amputated visual culture, viscously cut off from our artistic forefathers we have every right to lay claim to," exclaimed Archie Rand, artist and professor at Columbia University.

Shards Across Time: An Exhibition In Memorial Of Kristallnacht: The Art Of Yonia Fain And Pinchas Shaar

Posted on: December 12th, 2003

Kristallnacht, the pogrom unleashed by the Nazis on Germany's Jews on November 8, 1938, is considered by many to be the beginning of the Holocaust.

Director Of The Jewish Image: Frederic Brenner's Photographs At The Brooklyn Museum

Posted on: December 5th, 2003

Jews with Hogs (1994) is the first image one encounters in Frederic Brenner's exhibition of photographs of contemporary Jews from around the world currently at the Brooklyn Museum.

A Simple Genesis Paintings Of Shalom Of Safed

Posted on: November 28th, 2003

There once lived a pious old man in Safed. His great grandparents had come from Eastern Europe to Eretz Yisrael, sometime in the 18th Century.

A Glimpse Of Meaning Russian Post-Modernists At YUM

Posted on: November 21st, 2003

The need to reassert a shattered cultural identity should be familiar to Jews.

Bradford’s Conundrum: Paintings By John Bradford

Posted on: November 14th, 2003

John Bradford's exhibition of nine paintings, done in the 1990's - presents us with a conundrum.

Multiple Identities – Oded Halahmy And Russian Post-Modernists At YUM

Posted on: November 7th, 2003

Who are you? Who am I? Questions of cultural identity among artists have raged from the early twentieth century to yesterday's memoir.

Diaspora Pictures: Photographs By Chrystie Sherman

Posted on: October 31st, 2003

There are Diasporas and then there are Diasporas.

Kishinev To Kovno: Witnesses To History

Posted on: October 10th, 2003

When G-d hid His face in the last century, a ruthless history unfolded as tragedy after tragedy descended upon the Jewish people.

Jewish Jewelry

Posted on: October 3rd, 2003

That which sparkles and shines as it calls attention to a graceful neck or a shapely face possesses a timeless allure for all humanity.

The Jewish Chagall: Marc Chagall Retrospective At The San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art

Posted on: September 12th, 2003

In his autobiography, My Life, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) recounts a pogrom he witnessed in Russia in 1917.

The Lisker Congregation: Determined Chassidus

Posted on: August 30th, 2003

Rav Shlomo Friedlander, z"l, the fourth Lisker Rav, had a vision.

The Paintings Of Brocha Teichman

Posted on: July 26th, 2003

When Brocha Teichman was a young girl growing up, she always drew pictures.

Tobi Kahn’s Horizons

Posted on: July 18th, 2003

Sky & Water, a new installation of 106 paintings by Tobi Kahn at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York, concentrates on one esoteric subject: the contemplation of the horizon.

Rephidim: A Painting By John Dubrow

Posted on: July 11th, 2003

From 1997 to 1998, John Dubrow got to know the World Trade Center fairly well. He made many paintings from a high vantage point on the 91st floor in a temporary studio granted him by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Itshak Holtz: Jewish Genre Painting

Posted on: July 4th, 2003

Itshak Holtz is an artist totally immersed in the Jewish genre. He was born in Poland, grew up in Israel, mainly in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Geula, and for the last 35 years he has maintained homes in both New York and Jerusalem.

The Outsider Complex Jewish Folk Artists Of Our Time

Posted on: June 27th, 2003

The outsider artist has become a fixture of the postmodern age. There are exhibitions, books, symposia and museums documenting artists who create outside the accepted norms of "fine art." The French artist Jean Dubuffet along with Andre Breton first defined outsider art as Art Brut (Raw Art) in 1945 and collected examples of work they considered "uncooked" by either classical or contemporary cultural influences.